Improvement in hedg-e-flanter



W. YOUNG.

Transplanter.

" No. 85,195. v Patented nec. 22,1868.

In/ventor:

ff Witnesses: A

i? 4, Mgr? WESLEY YOUNG, OF BLOOIVIINGTON, ILLINOIS.

Lette/rs Patent No. 85,195, dated Decembre?l 22, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN I-KIEDG-E-PLANTER.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom zt 'may concern: y Be it known that I, WESLEY YOUNG, ofBloomington, in the county of McLean, and State of Illinois, E haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements The nature of my inventionconsists in the combination of a cutting-shoe, opening a furrow; anendless belt, carrying the hedge-plants into the shoe, and depositingthe same on the pins of the setting-wheel;

- andthe setting-wheel, setting the said plants in the furrow; saidparts so combined and operating as to permit todo the planting of anyhedge-plants automatically.

The machine consists of a metallic shoe, A, secured to and placedbetween the longitudinal pieces BB of the frame B. t

The shoe is pointed at the front, and widens to the rear, so as togradually open a furrow, and a coulter, C, is hinged to it in the front,its point being allowed to have some lateral motion, for the purpose ofeasily changing the direction of the shoe. v

The coulter C may also be provided with an arm, c', to the end of whicha while-tr'ee could be attached.

The shoe A consists of two vertical plates, anda bottom, and encases thelower half of the setting-wheel'D.

The inside vertical plate of the shoe is radially cut open or: split atA', opposite the centre of the wheel D, and the rear edge of the cutisbent inside, for the purpose of forming a passage for the hedge-plants,when F is an endless belt, on which the plants are'placed,

and by which they are carried to the setting-wheel.

The belt .is provided with pins, j j, to easily carry the plants.

Setting-Wheel D is journalled to the pieces B B', of the frame, and isprovided with pins,-'L t, placed radially ou its inside su1face,for thepurpose of catching the plants, brought to the Wheel by the endless beltF, conveying them down, and placing them vertically into the furrow,through the cut A ofthe shoe.

In order to prevent the plants from dropping down, when they are beingcarried down by the pins t t of the setting-Wheel, springs, hh, aresecured on and to the inside surface of the vertical plate of the shoeA, which press the plants 'tothe carrying-surface of the tical positionThere is a rear coulter, lc, of triangular shape, and secured to theframe, in such a manner as to have its point in the' line withtheoutside plate ofthe shoe A, and behind the same, for the purpose oftlu'ning off the earth towards the plants set in the furrow, andpressing that earth against said plants, so as to keep them in verticalposition.A

The endless belt and the setting-wheel are worked jourualled to theframe B, and rolling over the ground behind the shoe, as it is cuttingthe furrow.

The bearings for the rollers axle may b e made adjustable, soas to allowthe roller to be raised or lowered. The axle of the roller, at one end,is provided with a bevel-pinion, gearing into'pinion e ofthe shaft g,operating the endless belt F, and the shaft y -is provided with abevel-pinion, j', gearing into the pinion set on the axle of thesetting-wheel D.

Theframe B, at the corners, is provided with movable legs, H H, providedwith rollers, Gr G, which legs are raised above the ground, when themachine is working and are lowered to the ground, raising the frame andall when the machine is in transportation Ato the place of work.

The operation consists in this, that, after the shoe A is set to aproper. depth into the ground, and the roller E is brought to theground, the horses are started,

, and the hedge-plants` are successively deposited on the endless beltF, with their roots turned to the front, which plants, one byone, as themachine moves, are successively brought to the setting-wheel D, caughtby its pins i i, vcarried down around and through the cut A of the shoe,and set in a vertical position, with their roots down, in the furrow,while the rear coulter lc cuts the earth and presses it towards theplants, and the4 roller .E rolls it over. Roller E may be arrangedsimply for covering the may be placed in the front part of the frame.

What I claim as new, and my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

I. The shoe A, constructed as described, and provided with hingedcoulter (l, notched cut A', and springs h h, substantially as' and forthe purpose set forth.

said shoe A, and provided with radially-arranged pins i t, substantiallyas above described, and for the purpose speciied.

3.. In combination with the above, the endless belt F, rear coulter k,and roller E, the whole arranged and operating substantially as hereinset forth and specilied.

WESLEY YOUNG. -Vitnesses S. W. DoDD, A. W. Lo'cK.

setting-wheel, and thus facilitate their setting in a verby a heavy'cast-iron roller or wheel, E, having its axle` furrow, while anotherroller, to drive the machinery,

2. The setting-wheel D, partially encased by the.

